I’m not so sure Israel will accept the French cease-fire proposal and it’s hard to imagine Hamas doing so either. Also, Israel seems prepared to continue its assault. Without some kind of “resistance” achievement Hamas is very unlikely to quit fighting.

The foreign monitors are supposed to include American Military engineers to be stationed in Egypt and help find tunnels. For their part Hamas has said they would shoot at any international observers in Gaza.

This operation will not bring complete victory but one should remember that since operation defensive shield in the West Bank Fatah has given up on the armed struggle. Iran is probably the difference between Hamas and Fatah but the WB has been pretty quiet since then.

I’ve seen a couple opinion pieces in the past few days bringing up again the Jordan option or the Jordan/Egypt option. I can imagine the WB and Jordan being joined in a confederation. It’s harder to imagine Egypt agreeing to take back Gaza.

Other, more drastic solutions, seem very unlikely because of Israel’s nature and the nature of the intl community.